abetalipoproteinemia

1. 1.

   a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism; characterized by severe deficiency of beta-lipoproteins and abnormal red blood cells (acanthocytes) and abnormally low cholesterol levels

   Broaderhypobetalipoproteinemialipidosisgenetic disease

Other forms of abetalipoproteinemia

plural

abetalipoproteinemias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about abetalipoproteinemia

What does abetalipoproteinemia mean?

abetalipoproteinemia means "a rare inherited disorder of fat metabolism; characterized by severe deficiency of beta-lipoproteins and abnormal red blood cells (acanthocytes) and abnormally low cholesterol levels".

How many syllables are in abetalipoproteinemia?

abetalipoproteinemia has 10 syllables: a-be-ta-li-po-pro-te-i-ne-mia. The stress falls on "i".

Is abetalipoproteinemia a common word?

abetalipoproteinemia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.